His Kingdom Is Coming
John 18:33-38 Then Pilate entered the Praetorium again, called Jesus, and said to Him, “Are You the King of the Jews?” Jesus answered him, “Are you speaking for yourself about this, or did others tell you this concerning Me?” Pilate answered, “Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have delivered You to me. What have You done?” Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would fight, so that I should not be delivered to the Jews; but now My kingdom is not from here.” Pilate therefore said to Him, “Are You a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say rightly that I am a king. For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.” Pilate said to Him, “What is truth?” And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, “I find no fault in Him at all.
Jesus didn't come to impose His rule on the earth. Jesus came to offer the earth the truth: that there is no life apart from Himself, and then invited the earth to live in that truth. He is coming to reveal the wisdom in accepting His invitation.
Every place He touched, life came back into the Garden. A few loved life, and a few hated the humility choosing life required. Many want all the benefits of life without the leadership of the one who IS life.
Right now, the life is coming back into the garden. Day by day the light of His glory is rising over the horizon...soon it will be noon and no one will escape the brilliant light of His infinite beauty:
Psalms 19:4-6 Their line has gone out through all the earth, And their words to the end of the world. In them He has set a tabernacle for the sun, Which is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, And rejoices like a strong man to run its race. Its rising is from one end of heaven, And its circuit to the other end; And there is nothing hidden from its heat.
This is what will happen when His light is high over head...I believe in just a couple of years:
Isaiah 2:17-22 The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, And the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; The Lord alone will be exalted in that day, But the idols He shall utterly abolish. They shall go into the holes of the rocks, And into the caves of the earth, From the terror of the Lord And the glory of His majesty, When He arises to shake the earth mightily. In that day a man will cast away his idols of silver And his idols of gold, Which they made, each for himself to worship, To the moles and bats, To go into the clefts of the rocks, And into the crags of the rugged rocks, From the terror of the Lord And the glory of His majesty, When He arises to shake the earth mightily. Sever yourselves from such a man, Whose breath is in his nostrils; For of what account is he?
"Sever yourselves from such a man, whose breath is in his nostrils"...
What an odd statement for the God of all creation to make regarding the end times! Isn't Jesus going to unify all people?
Yes, He is...into two camps: those who love His leadership and those who reject it. This is creating, and will create, the most division the earth has ever seen, starting in the Church:
Luke 12:49-56 “I came to send fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am till it is accomplished! Do you suppose that I came to give peace on earth? I tell you, not at all, but rather division. For from now on five in one house will be divided: three against two, and two against three. Father will be divided against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.” Then He also said to the multitudes, “Whenever you see a cloud rising out of the west, immediately you say, ‘A shower is coming’; and so it is. And when you see the south wind blow, you say, ‘There will be hot weather’; and there is. Hypocrites! You can discern the face of the sky and of the earth, but how is it you do not discern this time?
Do you see it? Do you see the division being fomented to divide the Church. The arrogance rising up is alarming. Those who claim to know Jesus acting as though they can judge right from wrong better than His word. And then another side, equally uninformed, claiming the other is evil and offering their own righteous man-based plans...both missing the glorious fact that this IS the return of Jesus unfolding...because none would simply study His wedding plans for themselves. There is no peace...no life...without Him home. We don't need a better leader, or a better law...we need the kingdom from another world to come.
If you have breath in your nostrils, you are supposed to realize you didn't put it there....you are supposed to realize that you don't have the basic ability to even fill your nostrils with air, much less make the earth come into an era of peace and love without Jesus.
Can you imagine?! The religious Jews of Jesus' day not wanting to defile themselves so they wouldn't miss the passover, while beating and spitting on the perfect passover sacrifice, and then killing him unjustly...all in the name of the Father of that very sacrifice...and the people chanting "crucify Him" along with those leaders? Just a week earlier they cheered and blessed Jesus on the colt... and now they chanted "crucify Him"... all at the prompting of "leaders" who claimed to know but did not know.
Right now...literally today...religious leaders and political leaders are once again conspiring to do the exact same thing all over...do you listen to what they say? They are in league to steal the Garden from the one who made it.
Just this week, a president and a pope both praising a false peace between Iran and the world as ushering in a new era. Do you understand how evil this is? How prophetic it is? How dangerous it is?
Iran is literally one of the most hateful political regimes the planet has ever seen...one of the most repressive to Christians and Jews, and women, and homosexuals, and the weak... one who says to one crowd "death to America" and turns around and says to the other "peace and safety"...and the crowd blithely follows along...and one of the world's most respected religious leaders praises THIS peace on Easter? Woe to the earth...
Did you know this is prophesied? Do you know where this is going? Anecdotally, chances are you do not. Strong delusion is being poured out right now on those who do not want to know the truth.
Did you know that if you are not actively looking for and hastening the day of the Lord...if you are not crying out to God and speaking up to man... you are likely drinking in strong delusion?
How many will perish because of the silence of those who claim to know but do not know?... Or worse yet, how many will be caught up in the chants of the religious crowd that go from " come Lord" to the false chants of "peace and safety" and the sudden destruction that MUST follow?
II Thessalonians 2:8-11 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming. The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie,
Much of the Church is beginning to believe the lie that much of the world believes:
I Thessalonians 5:1-5 But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you. For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape. But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief. You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.
A friend posted a quote from "To Kill a Mockingbird" this am that said "People generally see what they look for and hear what they listen for." This is frightfully true. In this hour the restraint to hear and see is being lifted. What do you WANT to hear and see? Do you bear His name but have no clue of His plans for His kingdom to come...do you know those plans are supposed to be inside of you and growing out from your very desire to see them be true?
Luke 17:20-22 Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said, “The kingdom of God does not come with observation; nor will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you.” Then He said to the disciples, “The days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.
Do you know what Jesus was saying here? What He was saying was this: "when you start wishing I would show up in the sky, look to yourself...you think you are waiting on ME, but I am waiting on YOU to start manifesting the kingdom from the inside out."
Romans 8:18-19 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God.
All of creation is longing for you to bring the kingdom as the rescue to the earth...did you know that? The suffering is supposed to produce the longing...the desire...which creates the continual crying out for Him to come:
Luke 18:1-8 Then He spoke a parable to them, that men always ought to pray and not lose heart, saying: “There was in a certain city a judge who did not fear God nor regard man. Now there was a widow in that city; and she came to him, saying, ‘Get justice for me from my adversary.’ And he would not for a while; but afterward he said within himself, ‘Though I do not fear God nor regard man, yet because this widow troubles me I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.’ ” Then the Lord said, “Hear what the unjust judge said. And shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them? I tell you that He will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?”
There is a new grace to believe the lie that already crucified Jesus... that you can live without Him for now. You can't, and you are supposed to see that over the course of 7 seals, 7 trumpets, and 7 bowls, He is going to make that plain to see before He returns and destroys the man who claims to be making the earth peaceful and righteous.
Strong delusion is an option many are choosing...simply because they want it. "I don't care about that end times stuff..."
Everyone is getting what they want. Many don't want to settle down, realize the unique hour they live in, and find out what comes next. They point to the blood moon and say "isn't it amazing" yet they refuse to find out what it means. I don't say this as a condemnation, but rather as an invitation: humble yourself and find out what it means before you drink too much delusion. there is a grace to know what to do...what to watch for, what to pray for, and how to be ready, but you have to actually want it with your choices...your time and attention...your desire.
How tragic for those in pretty dresses and shined up shoes going to the Church to celebrate the man who died and rose again, only to completely miss the events of the hour He promised to return through...the hour He would return as a king and His servants WOULD fight!
II Peter 3:11-12 Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?
Right now, the events of the day are calling the true servants of God to fight...not with swords and guns, but with worship and intercession... with weapons not carnal but rather useful for pulling down strongholds... taking the kingdom by the force of spiritual violence like John the Baptist...with fasting and praying. Do you know the hour you live in, and what to do? Do you even care?... or are you content to chant what the shifting crowd chants. The crowds that chanted for the crucifixion WERE united...isn't it just about unity?
If only those servants of the High Priest and the Pharisees could have seen the irony of their choices...as they thought "certainly God approves of me and not this instigator"... even as they rejected the coming of God's sinless perfect son... and the crowd chanted what the one next to him chanted. Do you think they arrogantly believed "God would never let me make this big of a mistake" instead of humbling themselves to simply ask "IS this the hour we've longed to see? what would you have me do, Lord?"
Matthew 7:7-11“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!
Just as resurrection Sunday marked a new day in the history of the world and the lives of those who loved Jesus...there is coming a day that will change everything again. On one day, only one thing will have mattered...did I agree with His coming? And then forever more His opinion will be the only one desired. That day is not far off, but very soon...
Matthew 24:42-51 Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming. But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into. Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect. “Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season? Blessed is that servant whom his master, when he comes, will find so doing. Assuredly, I say to you that he will make him ruler over all his goods. But if that evil servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,’ and begins to beat his fellow servants, and to eat and drink with the drunkards, the master of that servant will come on a day when he is not looking for him and at an hour that he is not aware of, and will cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
His kingdom is coming...are you listening? Are you watching? Are you hastening? His kingdom is coming very soon...
Jesus didn't come to impose His rule on the earth. Jesus came to offer the earth the truth: that there is no life apart from Himself, and then invited the earth to live in that truth. He is coming to reveal the wisdom in accepting His invitation.
Every place He touched, life came back into the Garden. A few loved life, and a few hated the humility choosing life required. Many want all the benefits of life without the leadership of the one who IS life.
Right now, the life is coming back into the garden. Day by day the light of His glory is rising over the horizon...soon it will be noon and no one will escape the brilliant light of His infinite beauty:
Psalms 19:4-6 Their line has gone out through all the earth, And their words to the end of the world. In them He has set a tabernacle for the sun, Which is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, And rejoices like a strong man to run its race. Its rising is from one end of heaven, And its circuit to the other end; And there is nothing hidden from its heat.
This is what will happen when His light is high over head...I believe in just a couple of years:
Isaiah 2:17-22 The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, And the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; The Lord alone will be exalted in that day, But the idols He shall utterly abolish. They shall go into the holes of the rocks, And into the caves of the earth, From the terror of the Lord And the glory of His majesty, When He arises to shake the earth mightily. In that day a man will cast away his idols of silver And his idols of gold, Which they made, each for himself to worship, To the moles and bats, To go into the clefts of the rocks, And into the crags of the rugged rocks, From the terror of the Lord And the glory of His majesty, When He arises to shake the earth mightily. Sever yourselves from such a man, Whose breath is in his nostrils; For of what account is he?
"Sever yourselves from such a man, whose breath is in his nostrils"...
What an odd statement for the God of all creation to make regarding the end times! Isn't Jesus going to unify all people?
Yes, He is...into two camps: those who love His leadership and those who reject it. This is creating, and will create, the most division the earth has ever seen, starting in the Church:
Luke 12:49-56 “I came to send fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am till it is accomplished! Do you suppose that I came to give peace on earth? I tell you, not at all, but rather division. For from now on five in one house will be divided: three against two, and two against three. Father will be divided against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.” Then He also said to the multitudes, “Whenever you see a cloud rising out of the west, immediately you say, ‘A shower is coming’; and so it is. And when you see the south wind blow, you say, ‘There will be hot weather’; and there is. Hypocrites! You can discern the face of the sky and of the earth, but how is it you do not discern this time?
Do you see it? Do you see the division being fomented to divide the Church. The arrogance rising up is alarming. Those who claim to know Jesus acting as though they can judge right from wrong better than His word. And then another side, equally uninformed, claiming the other is evil and offering their own righteous man-based plans...both missing the glorious fact that this IS the return of Jesus unfolding...because none would simply study His wedding plans for themselves. There is no peace...no life...without Him home. We don't need a better leader, or a better law...we need the kingdom from another world to come.
If you have breath in your nostrils, you are supposed to realize you didn't put it there....you are supposed to realize that you don't have the basic ability to even fill your nostrils with air, much less make the earth come into an era of peace and love without Jesus.
Can you imagine?! The religious Jews of Jesus' day not wanting to defile themselves so they wouldn't miss the passover, while beating and spitting on the perfect passover sacrifice, and then killing him unjustly...all in the name of the Father of that very sacrifice...and the people chanting "crucify Him" along with those leaders? Just a week earlier they cheered and blessed Jesus on the colt... and now they chanted "crucify Him"... all at the prompting of "leaders" who claimed to know but did not know.
Right now...literally today...religious leaders and political leaders are once again conspiring to do the exact same thing all over...do you listen to what they say? They are in league to steal the Garden from the one who made it.
Just this week, a president and a pope both praising a false peace between Iran and the world as ushering in a new era. Do you understand how evil this is? How prophetic it is? How dangerous it is?
Iran is literally one of the most hateful political regimes the planet has ever seen...one of the most repressive to Christians and Jews, and women, and homosexuals, and the weak... one who says to one crowd "death to America" and turns around and says to the other "peace and safety"...and the crowd blithely follows along...and one of the world's most respected religious leaders praises THIS peace on Easter? Woe to the earth...
Did you know this is prophesied? Do you know where this is going? Anecdotally, chances are you do not. Strong delusion is being poured out right now on those who do not want to know the truth.
Did you know that if you are not actively looking for and hastening the day of the Lord...if you are not crying out to God and speaking up to man... you are likely drinking in strong delusion?
How many will perish because of the silence of those who claim to know but do not know?... Or worse yet, how many will be caught up in the chants of the religious crowd that go from " come Lord" to the false chants of "peace and safety" and the sudden destruction that MUST follow?
II Thessalonians 2:8-11 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming. The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie,
Much of the Church is beginning to believe the lie that much of the world believes:
I Thessalonians 5:1-5 But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you. For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape. But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief. You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.
A friend posted a quote from "To Kill a Mockingbird" this am that said "People generally see what they look for and hear what they listen for." This is frightfully true. In this hour the restraint to hear and see is being lifted. What do you WANT to hear and see? Do you bear His name but have no clue of His plans for His kingdom to come...do you know those plans are supposed to be inside of you and growing out from your very desire to see them be true?
Luke 17:20-22 Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said, “The kingdom of God does not come with observation; nor will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you.” Then He said to the disciples, “The days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.
Do you know what Jesus was saying here? What He was saying was this: "when you start wishing I would show up in the sky, look to yourself...you think you are waiting on ME, but I am waiting on YOU to start manifesting the kingdom from the inside out."
Romans 8:18-19 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God.
All of creation is longing for you to bring the kingdom as the rescue to the earth...did you know that? The suffering is supposed to produce the longing...the desire...which creates the continual crying out for Him to come:
Luke 18:1-8 Then He spoke a parable to them, that men always ought to pray and not lose heart, saying: “There was in a certain city a judge who did not fear God nor regard man. Now there was a widow in that city; and she came to him, saying, ‘Get justice for me from my adversary.’ And he would not for a while; but afterward he said within himself, ‘Though I do not fear God nor regard man, yet because this widow troubles me I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.’ ” Then the Lord said, “Hear what the unjust judge said. And shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them? I tell you that He will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?”
There is a new grace to believe the lie that already crucified Jesus... that you can live without Him for now. You can't, and you are supposed to see that over the course of 7 seals, 7 trumpets, and 7 bowls, He is going to make that plain to see before He returns and destroys the man who claims to be making the earth peaceful and righteous.
Strong delusion is an option many are choosing...simply because they want it. "I don't care about that end times stuff..."
Everyone is getting what they want. Many don't want to settle down, realize the unique hour they live in, and find out what comes next. They point to the blood moon and say "isn't it amazing" yet they refuse to find out what it means. I don't say this as a condemnation, but rather as an invitation: humble yourself and find out what it means before you drink too much delusion. there is a grace to know what to do...what to watch for, what to pray for, and how to be ready, but you have to actually want it with your choices...your time and attention...your desire.
How tragic for those in pretty dresses and shined up shoes going to the Church to celebrate the man who died and rose again, only to completely miss the events of the hour He promised to return through...the hour He would return as a king and His servants WOULD fight!
II Peter 3:11-12 Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?
Right now, the events of the day are calling the true servants of God to fight...not with swords and guns, but with worship and intercession... with weapons not carnal but rather useful for pulling down strongholds... taking the kingdom by the force of spiritual violence like John the Baptist...with fasting and praying. Do you know the hour you live in, and what to do? Do you even care?... or are you content to chant what the shifting crowd chants. The crowds that chanted for the crucifixion WERE united...isn't it just about unity?
If only those servants of the High Priest and the Pharisees could have seen the irony of their choices...as they thought "certainly God approves of me and not this instigator"... even as they rejected the coming of God's sinless perfect son... and the crowd chanted what the one next to him chanted. Do you think they arrogantly believed "God would never let me make this big of a mistake" instead of humbling themselves to simply ask "IS this the hour we've longed to see? what would you have me do, Lord?"
Matthew 7:7-11“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!
Just as resurrection Sunday marked a new day in the history of the world and the lives of those who loved Jesus...there is coming a day that will change everything again. On one day, only one thing will have mattered...did I agree with His coming? And then forever more His opinion will be the only one desired. That day is not far off, but very soon...
Matthew 24:42-51 Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming. But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into. Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect. “Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season? Blessed is that servant whom his master, when he comes, will find so doing. Assuredly, I say to you that he will make him ruler over all his goods. But if that evil servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,’ and begins to beat his fellow servants, and to eat and drink with the drunkards, the master of that servant will come on a day when he is not looking for him and at an hour that he is not aware of, and will cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
His kingdom is coming...are you listening? Are you watching? Are you hastening? His kingdom is coming very soon...
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